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Altrocchi, Julia CooleyWolves Against The Moon A Narrative of Romance & HistoryNew York Pageant Book Company 1957 Reprint Hardcover Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket Signed by AuthorSIGNED EDITION. This book is in Very Good+ and has a Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy has been signed on the front endpaper by the author. There is a previous owner's address label on the front pastedown page. Laid in is a postcard signed by the author. The dust jacket has several edge nicks, tears and chips missing, along with spots of discoloration and toning, especially the spine. "Julia Cooley Altrocchi , author and poet, resided in Berkeley, California upon graduation from Vassar College. She was married to Rudolph Altrocchi, She authored several works on the Oregon-California Trail. She was also a Professor of Italian at the University of California. A collection of her letters and other papers can be found at the University Library, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California." ; Signed by Author
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35.00 USD

Atwater, FrancisMemoirs Of Francis Atwater Half Century of Recollections of an Unusually Active Life Considerable Space Devoted to the Progress of the City of Meriden and its PeopleMeriden, CT Horton Printing Co. 1922 1st Edition; 1st Printing Hardcover Very Good+ B&W Photographs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and edge wear. The spine of the book has ground-in dirt. The text pages are clean and bright. "An admiring friend has persistently requested me to write an autobiography. The reason given was that I had had such a versatile experience that it should be preserved, not only as being entertaining and instructive, but showing what perseverance, even handicapped by early orphanage and years of ill health, might lead to." "Francis Atwater (1858-1935) was born at Plymouth, Connecticut, the youngest of eight children, of Henry Atwater (d. 1865) and Catherine Fenn Atwater (d. 1863) , and a descendant of David Atwater (d, 1691) , immigrant of 1637. After his father's death, he moved to Meriden Connecticut, to stay with an aunt. He was a printer and a newspaper man. His memoirs are chiefly memoirs of Meridian, Connecticut, and men he has known there. He gives some of his Atwater ancestry but little of his own family. He was the father of at least one son who was drowned in 1900 at age 20." "Meriden was originally part of Wallingford. It was granted a separate meetinghouse in 1727, became a town in 1806 with over 1000 residents, and incorporated as a city in 1867 with just under 9000 residents. It was once proposed as the Connecticut state capital. [3] It was named for the town of Meriden, West Midlands, England, near Birmingham. Popular myth also states that it is named after the Merry Den tavern that may have been located near present-day U. S. Route 5. The oldest house in town still standing, built by Solomon Goffe in 1711, became a museum in 1986, the Solomon Goffe House"
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45.00 USD

Bryan, William S. (edited and arranged by) with an introduction by Major-General Joseph Wheeler with special descriptive matter and narratives by Jose de OlivaresOUR ISLANDS AND THEIR PEOPLE AS SEEN WITH CAMERA AND PENCIL Embracing Perfect Photographic and Descriptive Representations of the People and the Islands lated Acquired from Spain, including Hawaii and the Philippines: also their material resources and productions...St. Louis, MO N. D. Thompson Publishing Co. 1988 1st Edition; 1st Printing Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket Illustrated by Walter B. Townsend B&W Illustrations; "Published in twenty-four parts of thirty-two quarto pages each. Superbly Illustrated with more than twelve hundred special photographs, photogravures in colors, and new colored maps." The islands included in this volume (several of which were acquired at the conclusion of the Spanish-American War) are: the Hawaiian Islands, the Philippine Island groups, Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Isle of Pines, and Samoa. This work is contained in two large folios which contain numerous black and white photographs, full color photogravure plates and several full color maps. The descriptions of the islands include historic events, topography, geography, agricultural, mineral and other resources, city and country life, and much more. Rust colored cloth covered boards have gilt lettering to the spine and gilt and black lettering and decorations to the front covers of the books. The gilding on the spines of both volumes and on the front cover of volume two has faded and dulled somewhat (it varies - with more dulling to the spines than the cover). There is some bumping to the spine ends, corners and edges of the book covers along with some edge tearing, light fraying and wear to the cloth at the corners and spine ends. The text blocks of both volumes are clean and bright. With the exception of two pages, the text blocks are clean, bright and fresh. There is one small tear to the bottom of one page in volume two, followed by two pages with spots of discoloration. Volume one has one page which has a long, tear - almost a full page tear - which has been repaired. All plates are present and in very nice clean, bright condition. Overall, a very good to near very good set of this heavy, profusely illustrated work. The photographs (black and white) were taken by Walter B. Townsend. Special descriptive matter and narratives were added by Jose De Olivas. The entire work was introduced by Major-General Joseph Wheeler of the United States Army. Due to the extreme weight of this set, postage will have to be determined at time of ordering.
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375.00 USD

Cheek, Mrs. JamesCherished Memories Of the Life of a Tennessee GirlLos Angeles, CA Bedrock Press 1944 1st Edition; 1st Printing Very Good+ in Good dust jacket B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and medium sized chips missing. "Prior to the arrival of white settlers in present-day Sevier County in the mid-18th century, the area had been inhabited for as many as 20,000 years by nomadic and semi-nomadic Native Americans. In the mid-16th century, Spanish expeditions led by Hernando de Soto (1540) and Juan Pardo (1567) passed through what is now Sevier County, reporting that the region was part of the domain of Chiaha, a minor Muskogean chiefdom centered around a village located on a now-submerged island just upstream from modern Douglas Dam. By the late 17th-century, however, the Cherokee— whose ancestors were living in the mountains at the time of the Spaniards' visit— had become the dominant tribe in the region. Although they used the region primarily as hunting grounds, the Chicakamauga faction of the Cherokee vehemently fought white settlement in their territory, frequently leading raids on households, even through the signing of various peace treaties, alternating short periods of peace with violent hostility, until forcibly marched from their territory by the U. S. Government on the "Trail of Tears." "
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75.00 USD

Cohen, Paul E. (with an introduction by David Rumsey)Mapping The West America's Westward Movement 1524-1890New York Rizzoli 2002 1st Edition; 1st Printing Hardcover Very Good+ in Fine dust jacket Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and ha a Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Westward movement, the populating (by Europeans) of the land within the continental boundaries of the mainland United States, a process that began shortly after the first colonial settlements were established along the Atlantic coast. The first British settlers in the New World stayed close to the Atlantic, their lifeline to needed supplies from England. By the 1630s, however, Massachusetts Bay colonists were pushing into the Connecticut River valley. Resistance from the French and the Indians slowed the movement westward, yet by the 1750s northern American colonists had occupied most of New England."
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25.00 USD

Derleth, AugustVillage Year A Sac Prairie JournalNew York Coward - McCann, Inc. 1941 1st Edition; 1st Printing Hardcover Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket Illustrated by Frank Utpatel Signed by AuthorB&W Illustrations; SIGNED EDITION. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is previous owner's inked name, address and notation on the reverse of the front endpaper. This copy has been signed, with an inscription, on the half title page by the author. The dust jacket has edge wear, tears, rubbed and nicked spots along with a large chip to the front panel. "Sac Prairie, Wisconsin, is rapidly becoming a place name in American letters, since it has served as the setting for more than a dozen books - novels, short stories, poetry." ; Signed by Author
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50.00 USD

Earle, SwepsonThe Chesapeake Bay CountryBaltimore, MD Thomsen-Ellis Company 1929 3rd Edition Hardcover Very Good- B&W Photographs; This book is in Very Good- to Near Very Good condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and very beginning fraying. Both front and rear inner hinges have cracked and been repaired. The text pages are mostly clean and bright, with some spots of foxing. The edges of the text block have noticeable foxing. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front pastedown page. There is one medium sized spot of blue ink on the foredge of the text block. "In 1922, Governor Albert C. Ritchie created a one-man commission called the State Conservation Department. Harrison Vickers was the first commissioner appointed under Governor Ritchie's "Conservation Reorganization Act, ” and upon the expiration of Vickers' term on June 1, 1924, Governor Ritchie appointed Swepson Earle as Conservation Commissioner. Swepson Earle had already accomplished significant work related to the Chesapeake Bay and its resources. He completed the first survey of the oyster bars of Maryland in 1907 and drew up the Potomac River Compact of 1912. The reorganization and change of direction in Maryland's conservation program incorporated the State Fishery Force into its overall activity and calling them the Maryland Patrol and Inspection Fleet. The reorganization also included game enforcement with a force of 24 salaried District Deputy Game Wardens and 600 Fee Deputy Game Wardens. The unpaid Deputy Game Wardens were compensated with half the fines while the other half went to the county roads or schools. "
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50.00 USD

Federal Writers' Project Of The Works Progress Administration / American Guide SeriesNew Orleans City GuideBoston, MA Houghton Mifflin Company 1938 Trade Edition Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket B&W Illustrations; Likely 2nd printing. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has edge wear, rubbing, nicking and small edge tears along with spots of rubbing and a couple of small chips. "The American Guide Series was a group of books and pamphlets published in 1937–41 under the auspices of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) , a Depression-era works program in the United States. The American Guide Series books were compiled by the FWP, but printed by individual states, and contained detailed histories of each of the then 48 states of the Union with descriptions of every major city and town. In total, the project employed over 6,000 writers. The format was uniform, comprising essays on the state's history and culture, descriptions of its major cities, automobile tours of important attractions, and a portfolio of photographs."
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25.00 USD

Federal Writers's Project Of The Works Projects AdministrationTennessee A Guide to the StateNew York Hastings House 1949 3rd Printing Hardcover Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket B&W Photographs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Fair dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some rubbing and wear. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several large chips missing, along with several edge tears, rubbed spots and ground-in dirt. "The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. In a much smaller project, Federal Project Number One, the WPA employed musicians, artists, writers, actors and directors in large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects."
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20.00 USD

Fisher, Anne B. (Series edited by Hervey Allen)The Salinas Upside Down RiverNew York Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. 1941 1st Edition Hardcover Very Good+ Illustrated by Walter K. Fisher B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front endpaper. "In THE SALINAS, twenty-seventh volume in the Rivers of American series, anne B. Fisher tells the romantic story of the Upside-Down River. Flowing north it waters one of the richest agricultural areas in the world. First settled by the padres and Spanish who lived in feudal luxury in a lush land, the valley grew up around the missions." "Anne Benson Fisher (February 1, 1898 – March 5, 1967) was an American writer of fiction and non-fiction whose primary emphasis was California. Her two most significant works were her novel Cathedral in the Sun (1940) and her contribution to the Rivers of America Series, The Salinas: Upside Down River (1945). In 1922 Fisher married Walter Kenrick Fisher. They resided in Pacific Grove, California, and also had a house in Carmel Valley. Fisher moved to Medford, Oregon after her husband's death. Her novel Cathedral in the Sun was based on the lives of the early settlers of the Carmel Valley, James Meadows and Loretta Onesimo de Peralta, who were married in 1842."
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20.00 USD

Gilman, Arthur (M. A. )The Story Of BostonNew York G. P. Putnam's Sons 1889 1st Edition; 1st Printing Hardcover Very Good B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light edge wear, bumping, rubbing and beginning fraying. The spine has several small patches of biopredation (loss of color to the cloth from bugs nibbling the sizing) . The text pages are clean and bright. "The Story of Boston deals with the doings of a community of earnest men who for eightscore years had no considerable interests except those connected with politics and religion. For the whole of the earlier period of their history they gave themselves with all the force of their nature to such subjects as these."
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30.00 USD

Grant, Mrs. (Anne)Memoirs Of An American Lady, With Sketches Of Manners And Scenery In America As They Existed Previous To The RevolutionNew York D. Appleton & Co. 1846 1st American Edition; 1st Printing Hardcover Good+ This book is in Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have edge wear, rubbing, bumping and some fraying / cloth loss to corners, and edges. The spine ends have bits chipped off and loss of cloth along the spine joints. The text pages are generally clean, though there are noticeable spots of foxing throughout, especially the endpapers. There are two previous owner's names on the title page and the rear endpaper has a faintly lettered (pencil? ) poem added (from Anonymous). The front endpaper has been excised roughly. There is some rough cut paper showing underneath the rear endpaper - possibly some of the rear hinge that wasn't cut cleanly. Born in Glasgow to British military officer Duncan Macvicar, Anne mainly grew up in and around Albany, New York, where her father was stationed. Eventually, her father received a grant of land in Vermont, which he began expanding with the intention of settling the family down permanently. However, he fell ill and decided to return to Scotland temporarily in 1768. Shortly after their departure, the American Revolution began, and they never returned, their land being seized by the colonials." "Her next major work was her largest success though. Memoirs of an American Lady told her tales of growing up in pre-revolution America and her life with the Schuyler family in Albany who helped raise and educate her. One of her final large pieces of work was Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen, a lengthy poem about the prospects of a prosperous century for Great Britain."
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100.00 USD

Lummis, Charles F.The Spanish PioneeersChicago, IL A. C. McClurg & Company 1893 7th Edition Hardcover Very Good Signed by AuthorSIGNED EDITION. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The spine joints have some rubbing and beginning fraying, as do the corners of the book covers. The top rear book cover has a patch of light water marking. The text pages are clean and bright. Both front and rear endpapers have patches of toning. This copy includes a signed inscription by the author on the front endpaper. "Charles Fletcher Lummis (March 1, 1859, in Lynn, Massachusetts – November 24, 1928, in Los Angeles, California) was a United States journalist and an activist for Indian rights and historic preservation. A traveler in the American Southwest, he settled in Los Angeles, California, where he also became known as a historian, photographer, ethnographer, archaeologist, poet and librarian...In 1884, Lummis was working for a newspaper in Cincinnati and was offered a job with the Los Angeles Times. At that time, Los Angeles had a population of only 12,000. Lummis decided to make the 3,500-mile journey from Cincinnati to Los Angeles on foot, taking 143 days, all the while sending weekly dispatches to the paper chronicling his trip. One of his dispatches chronicled his meeting and interview with famed outlaw Frank James. The trip began in September and lasted through the winter. Lummis suffered a broken arm and struggled in the heavy winter snows of New Mexico. He became enamored with the American Southwest and its Spanish and Native American inhabitants. Several years later, he published his account of this journey in A Tramp Across the Continent (1892) "; Signed by Author
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85.00 USD

Miller, Paul W.Atlanta: Captial Of The South A New Completely Revised EditionNew York Oliver Durrell, Inc. 1949 Revised Edition Hardcover Very Good+ in Good dust jacket B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good only dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge nicks, tears and spots of rubbing, along with several edge tears and chips, along with edge wear, rubbing and tearing to the front spine joint. There are several spots of tape shadow, or tape where a former owner tried to repair the reverse of the dust jacket. "Atlanta is the capital and most populous city of the state of Georgia in the United States. With an estimated 2016 population of 472,522, it is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to 5.7 million people and the ninth-largest metropolitan area in the United States. Atlanta is the seat of Fulton County and a small portion of the city extends eastward into DeKalb County. Atlanta was founded as a transportation hub at the intersection of two railroad lines in 1837. After being mostly burned to the ground during the American Civil War, the city rose from its ashes to become a national center of commerce and the unofficial capital of the "New South". " "The American Guide Series was a group of books and pamphlets published in 1937–41 under the auspices of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) , a Depression-era works program in the United States. The American Guide Series books were compiled by the FWP, but printed by individual states, and contained detailed histories of each of the then 48 states of the Union with descriptions of every major city and town. In total, the project employed over 6,000 writers. The format was uniform, comprising essays on the state's history and culture. "
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25.00 USD

Peattie, Elia W.The Story Of America Containing the Romantic Incidents of History, from the Discovery of America to the Present TimeChicago, IL Mid-Continent Publishing Company 1889 1st Edition; 1st Printing Hardcover Good B&W Illustrations; Full leather binding. This book is in Good condition (it would be Very Good+ if not for a need for rebacking) , and was issued without a dust jacket. The leather covered boards are in generally clean, solid condition, with the exception of large chips removed from the top and bottom spine ends. There is some light rubbing an d wear to the corners of the book covers and a three inch long tear to the leather top rear spine joint. The text pages are clean and bright. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates. "Elia Wilkinson Peattie (January 15, 1862 – July 12, 1935) was an American author, journalist and critic. " "She stopped attending school when she was fourteen, but kept up a reading habit. In 1883 she married Robert Burns Peattie, a Chicago journalist. She began writing short stories for newspapers, and in 1886 became a reporter with the Chicago Tribune and subsequently the Chicago Daily News. In 1888 the family moved to Omaha after Peattie and her husband accepted jobs at the Omaha Daily Herald. When Gilbert Hitchcock bought the Daily Herald and combined it into the Omaha World-Herald Peattie became chief editorial writer for the paper. Peattie wrote over 800 columns, editorials, and stories in the World-Herald offering a voice to frontier women. Peattie did not limit her articles to societal pieces and was active in political discourse. A supporter of orphanages, charity hospitals, and the need for shelters she also took a hard line and was outspoken in her opposition of capital punishment, lynching, and the Wounded Knee Massacre." "In 1888 she was commissioned by Chicago publishers to write a young people's history of the United States, and wrote the seven-hundred page The Story of America in four months. Her novel The Judge won a $900 prize from the Detroit Free Press in 1889, and was subsequently published in book form. Later in 1889 the Northern Pacific Railroad employed her to visit and report on Alaska: A Trip through Wonderland became a popular guide-book. With Scrip and Staff (1891) was a story of the children's crusade. Some time after 1890, Peattie befriended fellow writer Kate McPhelim Cleary while both were living in Nebraska. The two bonded over their financial, health, and family concerns."
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45.00 USD

Pierson, Helen W.History Of The United States In Words Of One SyllableNew York George Routledge & Sons 1889 Trade Edition Hardcover Very Good- B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good- condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have edge wear, rubbing and loss of paper and cardboard to the edges of the book covers. The front and rear covers of the book have illustrated pastdowns. The spine ends have some beginning fraying and edge wear. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. The edges of the text block have been marked with light pencil and ink scribbles. The endpapers have cracking at the inner hinges, especially the rear inner hinge. There are several lightly penciled notations by former owners on the free pages. Supposedly written with words of one syllable, some words had to be "modified" with hyphens to fit the description; such as Wash-ing-ton (George). The book is a snapshot of the feelings and morays of the time.
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20.00 USD

Powers, Elmer G. (coedited by H. Roger Grant and L. Edward Purcell)Years of Struggle: The Farm Diary of Elmer G. Powers 1931-1936Ames, IA Iowa State University Press 1976 0813806003 / 9780813806006 1st Edition; 1st Printing Hardcover Fine in Near Fine dust jacket B&W Illustrations; This book is in Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean with the exception of some light fading to the front spine joint and some ground-in dirt to the rear panel. "If it were not for his remarkable diary, Elmer G. Powers would have been long forgotten, save by the members of his family. Powers was an Iowa farmer eking out an existence during the depression and drought of the 1930s. The most important things in his life were the land, his family, and his church.Every day for eleven years he sat down to write about the crops, his livestock, the weather, his neighbors, the family's activities, and his views on political and social issues of the day."
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25.00 USD

Robertson, E. ArnotThe Spanish Town Papers Some Sidelights on the American War of IndependenceNew york Macmillan Company 1959 1st Edition; 1st Printing Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book is in mostly clean condition but does have some wear to the covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has an inch long edge tear to the front top edge of the dust jacket and two smaller, wrinkled and edge worn tears to the top rear edge of the dust jacket. There is some light rubbing and edge wear to the spine ends of the dust jacket as well. The reverse of the bottom front flap joint of the dust jacket has a small strip of masking tape which has discolored the paper a bit. "By the purest chance of survival their names have come down to us - Just for a moment or two, as these papers are brought into the light of today their names become like a gleam of sunlight reflected from the window of a house, far away across a frontier which cannot be enfranchised. We know that men and women more or less like ourselves once bore these names, felt cold and hunger, were happy or unhappy in love, went bravely or meanly or cruelly about the world, barred to all but our sympathy by the barrier of time. More we cannot know. The Spanish Town Papers are crumbling, worm-eaten documents that were removed from captured American ships and impounded by the British during the Revolutionary Wawr. For almost two hundred years this extraordinary varied cache of old sailing-ship documents has been neglected and left to moulder in Kingston, Jamaica. there are letters of love, hate and cozenage, a peculiar note from young Horatio Nelson, a remarkable Clearance Paper signed by George Washington, and Log Books full of the art, trade and traffic of the sea."
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15.00 USD

Starke, BarbaraBorn In Captivity The Story of a Girl's EscapeIndianapolis, IN Bobbs-Merrill Company 1931 1st Edition; 1st Printing Hardcover Good This book is in Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends of the book covers have edge wear, bumping, rubbing and bits of fraying. The yellow cloth covers have ground-in dirt, rubbing, spotting, some foxing and general wear and tear. The spine of the book has a hole right below the the title . The text pages are generally clean and bright. "In the 1920s, Barbara Starke (a pseudonym) was on a free-ranging runaway trip at 17, wearing ‘corduroys’ and carrying very little. Despite the clear signal that she was on the road and living rough, she made frequent references to her efforts to stay ‘clean’, to wash her clothes or herself in a stream, or in a host’s bath, whenever the opportunity arose. As Christine Photinos argues in her article about Barbara Starke and Boxcar Bertha Thompson, Having constructed a space for her own unconventional identity that will not glide into the category of “delinquent woman”, Starke nevertheless applies this label to transient women “other” than herself. (Photinos, 664-5) Another important difference that Starke stresses at one point, is that she never lifted her thumb as she walked the roads. As she put it: ‘Although my clothes and pack showed what I was doing, I never sought rides, and did not always want them."
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50.00 USD